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and pope benedict, this surprise resignatio resignation. you have to wonder what might be behind it, whether it's health issues or something else. mike barnicle joins us now with his thoughts. mike? >> a stunner. that's for sure. the church has obviously been in great controversy over the last several years, as joe just indicated. the abuse scandal that began here in the united states has spread throughout the world. this particular pope came into the papacy as pretty much the departed pope's successor, indicated he was very conservative, from germany. he was in charge of priests who had, you know, been charged with molesting kids throughout the world, not only in the united states. i don't know whether it's his health. nobody knows much more than we've just reported on this story right now. it's a stunning, stunning development. >> there had been reports earlier that he seemed exhausted, that he seemed out of touch and disconnected. but we'll be following this story throughout the morning, mika. big news, again, coming out of the vatican.
and pope benedict, this surprise resignatio resignation. you have to wonder what might be behind it, whether it's health issues or something else. mike barnicle joins us now with his thoughts. mike? >> a stunner. that's for sure. the church has obviously been in great controversy over the last several years, as joe just indicated. the abuse scandal that began here in the united states has spread throughout the world. this particular pope came into the papacy as pretty much the departed...
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it was benedict's second-to-last public appearance as pope. he will make his final address on wednesday before stepping down from the papacy thursday evening. the first pope to do so in 600 years. but even in his final days as pope, benedict cannot escape the controversies that have consumed much of his tenure. this morning cardinal keith o'brien, the head of the church in scotland, has announced he will be stepping down amid accusations of inappropriate and intimate behavior with current and former priests. chris matthews, a little bit of reaction from you. >> it's bad. >> it keeps going, huh? >> i grew up in the catholic church. >> me, too. >> we didn't see any of this. we thought priests had given up on sex as part of the holy orders and gave up on money and sacrificed their lives. those were the priests we knew, we thought. now we see nothing but headlines of people who had no intention of doing that. they couldn't have. >> cover-up. >> and the cover-up and the attempt to make the church look good, and it has made it look terrible. >> chri
it was benedict's second-to-last public appearance as pope. he will make his final address on wednesday before stepping down from the papacy thursday evening. the first pope to do so in 600 years. but even in his final days as pope, benedict cannot escape the controversies that have consumed much of his tenure. this morning cardinal keith o'brien, the head of the church in scotland, has announced he will be stepping down amid accusations of inappropriate and intimate behavior with current and...
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victims accuse benedict of not doing enough to stop the abuse. >> i mean, god, how would you like to be the guy over 2,000 years that's like smothered between john paul, ii, and this guy frances. >> that's true. >> seriously, you are not ringo between paul and george. are you the back-up singer and hermann her mites. >> i'm sure that's how he thinks of himself. >> all right. the "wall street journal". >> j.p. morgan is offering to pay about $3 billion to end civil and criminal investigations into his mortgage lending practice. how long are these j.p. morgan stories going to go? >> they had settlements that keep going on and on. give them a number. let them pay a check and be done with it. they were saying it was too low compared to the number of cases involved. j.p. morgan is accuse, the quality of the gun. don't you get like these breaking news alerts every day, j.p. morgan agrees to settle? this j.p. morgan story, i can start getting red sox the national scores again, it just keeps coming. >> the washington post, home practice along the rise. analysts fear it may be a sign the mark
victims accuse benedict of not doing enough to stop the abuse. >> i mean, god, how would you like to be the guy over 2,000 years that's like smothered between john paul, ii, and this guy frances. >> that's true. >> seriously, you are not ringo between paul and george. are you the back-up singer and hermann her mites. >> i'm sure that's how he thinks of himself. >> all right. the "wall street journal". >> j.p. morgan is offering to pay about $3...
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. ♪ >> pope benedict is stepping down, and the roman catholic church needs a new spiritual leader. could it be you? announcing mountain dew's pope n win contest. check specially marked mountain dew bottles. >> hey, mom, i won! >> plus other great prizes like a pool table and movie tickets. visit mountaindew.com for complete rules. >> good morning, it's thursday, february 21st. welcome to "morning joe." >> it's a big day. >> it is a big day. a live look at times square. inside the studio here, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. >> yes? >> are you completely buttoned? okay. whatever. >> have you buttoned everything up? >> i think so. >> it didn't look like it for a second there. msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu and former democratic congressman, harold ford jr. >> we love harold. >> and he's all buttoned up. >> it's the day. >> i know, i'm getting there. i'm getting there. it's the buildup. we also have with us democratic political strategist -- >> oh! >> -- james carville. >> look at this! >> what is this? >> more than that. >> strategist. >> he's the co-a
. ♪ >> pope benedict is stepping down, and the roman catholic church needs a new spiritual leader. could it be you? announcing mountain dew's pope n win contest. check specially marked mountain dew bottles. >> hey, mom, i won! >> plus other great prizes like a pool table and movie tickets. visit mountaindew.com for complete rules. >> good morning, it's thursday, february 21st. welcome to "morning joe." >> it's a big day. >> it is a big day. a live...
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twitter feed, i see conservatives hacking you to little bits, calling you a traitor and calling you a benedict arnold, saying you're a rhino and you're finished. yet all of these losers support losing candidates you got 67% approval rating. what do you say to your far, far, far, far right wing critics that think it's wrong for you to work with a democrat? >> i say the same thing to all of my critics no matter where they are in the spectrum. that is, i have a job to do. the fact is nothing ever crossed my mind in the days after. you wake up on tuesday, october 30th, 7 million of your 8.8 million citizens out of power and not a school opened and not a water treatment or waste water treatment plant is operational and 51 gas stations in the whole state are open. you're not sitting there worried about presidential politics, joe. >> yeah. >> you've got people suffering and you say i got to do my job. i say the same thing to all of them. put yourself in my shoes and if you're a responsible elected official you would to do nothing different. i supported mitt romney and very vocal about it the fact is
twitter feed, i see conservatives hacking you to little bits, calling you a traitor and calling you a benedict arnold, saying you're a rhino and you're finished. yet all of these losers support losing candidates you got 67% approval rating. what do you say to your far, far, far, far right wing critics that think it's wrong for you to work with a democrat? >> i say the same thing to all of my critics no matter where they are in the spectrum. that is, i have a job to do. the fact is nothing...